The category for #AlbumOddTheYear2023 today is
An album by a band or artist from your country, or a country you are/feel connected to. The theme was chosen by @derthomas and I'll need to think about this one.
“The European Council has decided to open accession negotiations with #Ukraine & Moldova. #EUCO granted candidate status to #Georgia.” - President of #EU Council Charles Michel
And since it's Bandcamp Friday, I also need to share this with you all. Many moons ago, a band named MONOLIT played in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As far as I can tell, one member was killed during wartime, and two emigrated to Norway and Canada. "Bosnian Norwegian" Predrag Glogovac prepared this comeback album but ultimately decided to release it under the AORTHA name: https://aorthametal.bandcamp.com/album/monolit
They are featuring members of VOIVOD, TRYPTIKON, EXHORDER, and MANY MORE!
Around midday we both dreamed of eating pommes... In this lost region there is no restaurant, no bar, no supermarket, no kiosk or farmersmarket. We are #cycling past more graveyards (often very old and derelicted, or where they devasted?) than hamlets. And then, Marc shoutet 'patatoes'! Stopped his bike and asked if we should collect some leftover potatoes from the harvested field. So we got our potatoe-lunch with these incredibly tasty 'crumpiri' 🤩! #BikeTooter#balkan#bosniaherzegovina
Still in the mountains, on a high plateau ~1100m, inbetween the peaks Tjeme 1326 and Ivanov Vrh 1389, to mention only two of all these nearby peaks around us...
We do have enough food and we found a drinking water fountain/ natural spring. So we are happy to be in this beautiful wild mountain area! #cycling#bikepacking#BikeTooter#adventure#outdoor#nomadslife#balkan#bosniaherzegovina
Some western Balkan leaders are growing increasingly frustrated that Ukraine is leapfrogging their countries in the EU accession process, adding further delays to their decades-long efforts to join the bloc.
Brussels has handled Kyiv’s accession bid with record speed since Russia’s full-scale invasion last year.
We have to address both #climatecrisis and the 6th mass extinction. New, centralized mega power plants, which destroy further natural and human habitats for the profit of big corporations, are not the solution. It's time to reduce energy consumption and decentralize production. #PowerToThePeople!